What kinds of changes need a JEP? (original) (raw)

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Nov 13 18:08:44 UTC 2017


2017/11/7 8:46:14 -0800, brian.goetz at oracle.com:

At the risk of being redundant, I’ll add that a JEP should be required for: - Any language feature; - Any change to the class file format.

While one could argue that these are subsumed by the other criteria, it is best to be explicit.

Good point.

Do you mean to allow changes to the language that are not "features" to be done without a JEP? In other words, why not say "any language change"?



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